Learning objectives
Conceptual design of spatially impactful lighting installations within the historically protected buildings of the Bauhaus-Dessau World Heritage Site
Introduction to the fundamentals of lighting technology; development of time-based programming to create complex lighting atmospheres (computer and lighting console), Exploration of various types of lighting fixtures
Introduction to the fundamentals of lighting semantics, conveying content through the media of color and light on an urban scale
In-depth exploration of the topics “Bauhaus teachings” and “Bauhaus festivals”
Contents
Content challenge – The Bauhaus is alive! What can you do with a building where not only the entire building, but every detail, every door handle, light fitting and balcony is a piece of design history? The Bauhaus Dessau is one of the most famous buildings in the world and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The life’s work of the Bauhaus masters Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Georg Muche and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as the workshop directors Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Hinnerk Scheper and Gunta Stölzl, who worked here, is alive in the background consciousness of every visitor. Nevertheless, we will not regard the building as a museum artifact, but as a university of design whose essence must constantly unfold anew through continuous creation.
Artistic design challenge – the dialogical principle! As part of the lighting workshop, we will familiarize ourselves with historical positions and search together for a contemporary interpretation of the existing structures. Through a respectful and at the same time self-confident approach to the overall composition of the Bauhaus building, we ultimately want to present visitors to the color festival with new ways of reading the familiar.
Course duration
5-day ideas workshop in the Bauhaus studio + 4-day implementation for the color festival
Participation:
Sebastian Huber and Dirk Seifert (programming lighting technology) as well as Burghard Duhm (Bauhaus Foundation) and Bettina Pelz (curator)
Authors: Carolin Raber, L. K., Nicole Zander, Li Xiaobai, Paul Kirsten and Christian Freitag
Project publications:
- 02.09.2011 “Farbfest Dessau-Rosslau”, (report on the light installations for the Farbfest Dessau), Radio Corax
- 29.08.11 “statt farbe licht” (report on the light installations for the Dessau Color Festival), Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
- 28.08.2011 “Outside of Berlin, Bauhaus-Themed Fun” (report on the light installations for the Farbfest Dessau), The New York Times
- Homepage Farbfest Dessau
- Homepage Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
- Homepage Bauhaus Dessau
See also lecture: “Multisensory effects of color and light” at Meisterhaus Feininger/Kurt-Weill-Zentrum
